: indeed, jim, there were children in the house, but they got the children and their babysitter outside in an ambulance before they actually moved in for this confrontation. what happened here is a man calls 911. he says he has a gun. he says he wants to die. he says he wants police to kill him, and indeed that's how his life came to an end. >> there were a number of shots. right after the other. >> reporter: how many shots? >> it was like maybe eight or nine. there was a lot of them. >> reporter: a man on an apparent self-destructive path, shot and killed this morning by police behind this house in silver spring. now, it's unclear as to what drove him to do what he did. but alcohol may have played some role. police say he brought a large bottle of vodka to what turned out to be the scene of his death. 3:15 a.m. a 911 call to police from a 22-year-old man. he said he wanted to die, that he had a gun, and he said more than that. >> at times he stated he wanted to kill himself, at other times he stated he wanted the police to kill him. >> troubled. >> absolutely. >> reporter: 3:17 a.m., p
